Pygments

Installation

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Pygments requires at least Python 2.3 to work correctly. Just to clarify: there won't ever be support for Python versions below 2.3.

Install the release version

  1. download the recent tarball from the download page
  2. unpack the tarball
  3. sudo python setup.py install

Note that the last command will automatically download and install setuptools if you don't already have it installed. This requires a working internet connection.

This will install Pygments into your Python installation's site-packages directory.

Install via easy_install

You can also install the most recent Pygments version using easy_install:

sudo easy_install Pygments

This will install a Pygments egg in your Python installation's site-packages directory.

Installing the development version

  1. Install Subversion
  2. svn co http://trac.pocoo.org/repos/pygments/trunk pygments
  3. ln -s `pwd`/pygments/pygments /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages
  4. ln -s `pwd`/pygments/pygmentize /usr/local/bin